The octopus is an animal with a seemingly endless amount of weird and wonderful traits, all the way down to its DNA. A new report published in the journal Cell has revealed yet another bizarre facet of cephalopod biology: the way they update their genes.

There is quite literally nothing more personal than someoneâEUR(TM)s genetic material. HR 1313 would allow employers to require employees to submit to genetic testing or else face a huge penalty on their health insurance.

Capone, a family dog, accidentally got out recently. Aurora City Animal Control picked him up & arbitrarily decided he was a wolf & could not go home!
Capone has been with his family for 10 years but if tests show any wolf DNA he will be killed.

The first large scale study of ancient feline DNA has finally been completed, and the results reveal how our inscrutable friends were domesticated in the Near East and Egypt some 15,000 years ago, before spreading across the globe and into our hearts.

The study, led by Dr Chris Tyler-Smith of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, analysed sequence differences between the Y chromosomes of more than 1200 men from 26 populations around the world using data generated by the 1000 Genomes Project.

In decoding just 0.1% of the genome of the oldest DNA ever recovered from an ancient human, the molecular biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, threw out enough raw data to map the modern human genome a dozen times over.

I grew up a Native kid in largely Native communities with a Native mom, Native dad and Native siblings. My standard of coolness was pow-wow dancers and Native basketball playersâEUR"I loved all the manifestations of everyday Nativeness around, both good

Soon a artificial rhino horn may be on the market that's identical to the real thing down to its DNA, writes Diogo VerÃ­ssimo. A boon for rhinoceros conservation? Or an act of biopiracy that will enrich biotech corporations while perpetuating demand for